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Twenty years of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: An icon of urban ecology research
The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) is one of only two urban Long-Term Ecological Research projects initially funded by the National Science Foundation, and this year it turns 20. When the BES was...
Posted: November 2, 2018, 8:06 PM
Jasmine Abrams receives an NIH grant to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma in Haiti
UMBC’s Jasmine Abrams, assistant professor of psychology, is working to increase pregnant women’s access to healthcare and HIV prevention resources in Haiti through a $390,000 award from the...
Posted: October 22, 2018, 8:11 PM
UMBC researchers develop new method to address deep-seated biases in science, starting with birds
New UMBC research is helping dismantle gender and publication biases in science. A team of researchers working across disciplines has developed a new statistical technique to understand...
Posted: October 16, 2018, 5:43 PM
UMBC’s Sebastian Deffner receives FQXi support for pioneering work to define laws of the universe
Sebastian Deffner plans to spend his career expanding on the work of physics giants to refine our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature, from the inner workings of the tiniest cells to...
Posted: October 15, 2018, 2:16 PM
UMBC physicist Can Ataca developing quicker, cheaper way to create novel, one-atom-thick materials
Imagine a sheet that’s only one atom thick. It won’t keep you very warm, but single-atom-thick materials under development might soon do extraordinary things, like filter salt from water, collect...
Posted: September 21, 2018, 2:51 PM
UMBC’s Rachel Brewster investigates cellular survival to improve the preservation of organs for transplant
Two years ago, developmental biologist Rachel Brewster embarked on a journey to learn more about how zebrafish embryos manage to survive for up to 50 hours without oxygen, with support from a...
Posted: September 18, 2018, 4:25 PM
UMBC, NASA, and partners mount intensive Chesapeake Bay air-quality study
This summer, students and faculty from UMBC and three additional universities teamed up with NASA researchers and Maryland’s Department of the Environment to collect huge amounts of data that will...
Posted: August 21, 2018, 2:26 PM
UMBC’s Matthew Baker teams up with Chesapeake Conservancy to create detailed stream maps
Thousands of waterways, from major rivers like the Potomac and Susquehanna to tiny headwaters, flow through the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Many of them appear on official stream maps produced by...
Posted: August 15, 2018, 10:49 PM
UMBC education policy expert Jane Arnold Lincove helps launch national center for research on school choice
UMBC’s Jane Arnold Lincove, associate professor of public policy, is collaborating with colleagues across the U.S. to launch the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH)...
Posted: July 23, 2018, 5:11 PM
UMBC astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi confirms binary star system produces cosmic rays
Eta Carinae is the most massive and luminous star system within 10,000 light years of Earth. New UMBC research published in Nature Astronomy concludes for the first time that the system is...
Posted: July 16, 2018, 8:16 PM
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